LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY: BASF SE has commercially launched Boroflex, the latest evolution of its residuum (resid) oil fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts for the refining market. Boroflex is based on BASF’s unique boron-based technology (BBT) and is designed to optimize refiners’ bottoms upgrading and distillate yields by providing maximum nickel contamination passivation.
Boroflex commercial trials have confirmed its ability to deliver better bottoms upgrading and high distillate yields that increase refiners’ profitability to meet market demand for refined products. It is proven to deliver other BBT-related benefits, such as nickel passivation, and lower coke and hydrogen.
Boroflex for superior bottoms upgrading is the third BBT product successfully introduced to optimize global refinery operations since the introduction of the innovative platform. BoroCat, presented in 2016, enables maximum conversion of gasoline in FCC units with high resid feed metals via improved metals passivation and operational flexibility.
In 2017, BASF introduced Borotec to provide refiners maximum conversion and high operating flexibility for use in FCC units with moderate resid feed metals or changing feed quality.
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